A-pŏd'o-sĭs, n.

n. [Lat. apodosis, Gr. ἀπόδοσις, from ἀποδιδόναι, to give back, from ἀπό, from, back again, and διδόναι, to give.] (Gram.) The consequent clause or conclusion in a conditional sentence, expressing the result, and thus distinguished from the protasis or clause, which expresses a condition. Thus, in the sentence, “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him,” the former clause is the protasis, and the latter the apodosis.

☞ By some respectable grammarians, this distinction is not confined to conditional sentences, but is extended to others similarly constructed.